Posts by geogadmin

The FlightAware MiseryMap is an interactive visualization of the state of US flight delays and cancellations. “With more than 6,000 flights within the nation canceled today and more than 1,000 delayed because of the snow and ice storm moving up the East Coast, it’s time once again to point to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. As All Tech Considered has explained before, the map ‘combines weather and flight data into a...

“Geography researchers use real data from the department’s climate monitoring stations to teach students how to explore the environment.” In a February 13 Science and Technology article in The Current, with the title above, Julie Cohen goes on to state: Climate monitoring stations take climate change beyond the anecdotal. These remote monitoring sites, which collect measurements on such data as temperature, wind...

They have a face only a mother could love, they’re considered a delicacy when roasted, they can regenerate parts of their brains, and their common name is “water monster.” They’re also becoming extinct. “The axolotl, also known as a Mexican salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum) or a Mexican walking fish, is a neotenic salamander, closely related to the tiger salamander. Although the axolotl is colloquially...